Abstract
Introduction: the steady increase in the number of the suspected, accused and convicted of terrorism and extremism, as well as cases of their participation in various emergencies, necessitates a personal, targeted approach to correctional psychological and educational work with them. The need for an individual approach, including in psychological and educational work with those convicted of terrorism and extremism, is also indicated by regulatory legal documents, in particular the Order of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia No. 1111 dated November 24, 2017 “On the organization of events on countering terrorism, extremist activity in penal enforcement institutions and bodies”. Study purpose: determination of the effectiveness of the tested model program for psychological correction of personality of persons convicted of terrorism and extremism-related crimes. Research methods: psychodiagnostics methods: the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) “Time perspective of convicts”, multidimensional self-attitude research questionnaire, a psychodiagnostic method “Life-purpose orientations”; a method for testing the program developed; a method for identifying statistical differences – the Student’s t-test; a method for comparative analysis of the psychodiagnostics results obtained following the testing results. Results: validation of the reliability of statistical differences with the help of the Student’s t-test determined the absence of significant changes in the indicators of convicts in the control group. Meaningful changes were observed in the indicators of convicts of the experimental group with the help of the following methods: ZTPI “Time perspective of convicts”, a multidimensional self-attitude research questionnaire and a psychodiagnostic method “Life-purpose orientations”. A comparative analysis of the results of psychodiagnostics of convicts in the experimental group before and after testing of the basic program proved the reliability of statistical differences with the help of the Student’s t-test determined the presence of positive personality changes in the behavioral, cognitive and affective spheres of the personality of convicts in the experimental group. Conclusions: assessment of the model program testing results revealed a sufficient degree of its effectiveness and the possibility of its implementation. The model program largely determined the content and structure of the section of the additional professional program – a professional development program for psychological service employees who accompany persons convicted of terrorist and extremist crimes.
Highlights
The need to counter terrorist and extremist ideology in society in general and in the penitentiary system in particular through the elaboration of methodological works dedicated to the correctional impact on persons serving sentences for terrorist and extremist crimes is beyond doubt [8, p. 3, 17, 20]
The need for an individual approach, including in psychological and educational work with those convicted of terrorism and extremism, is indicated by regulatory legal documents, in particular the Order of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia No 1111 dated November 24, 2017 “On the organization of events on countering terrorism, extremist activity in penal enforcement institutions and bodies”
Meaningful changes were observed in the indicators of convicts of the experimental group with the help of the following methods: Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) “Time perspective of convicts”, a multidimensional self-attitude research questionnaire and a psychodiagnostic method “Life-purpose orientations”
Summary
The need to counter terrorist and extremist ideology in society in general and in the penitentiary system in particular through the elaboration of methodological works dedicated to the correctional impact on persons serving sentences for terrorist and extremist crimes is beyond doubt [8, p. 3, 17, 20]. The normative legal acts regulating the content of psychological work with convicts of various categories determine the necessity to develop methodological materials that contribute to the implementation of effective psycho-correctional work with convicts sentenced for terrorist and extremist crimes Such regulatory legal documents include the Comprehensive plan to counter terrorism ideology in the Russian Federation for 2019–2023 [5], the Concept for the development of the penal enforcement system of the Russian Federation up to 2020 [6], the Order of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia No 1111 dated November 24, 2017 “On the organization of events on countering terrorism, extremist activity in penal enforcement institutions and bodies”, and the Action plan to improve performance of psychological services of the penal enforcement system for the period of 2018–2020. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption about the effectiveness of psychological and pedagogical techniques and methods contained in the model program, contributing to the correctional effect on convicts of the studied category
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